NCT05269238

Improvement of the Performance of Lumbar Punctures After Training Students With an Augmented Reality SIMulator

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Lumbar punctures (LP) are frequent invasive procedures that are anxiety-provoking for both the patient and the clinicans performing the procedure. LP is performed by many practitioners, whether they are emergency physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, internists or rheumatologists. Learning how to perform LP is essentially done at the patient's bed by showing the students how a procedure is performed and then having them perform it directly on a patient afterwards. The recent development of simulation in health care with the credo "never the first time on the patient" requires the development of training devices faithful to reality. The rheumatology department of the Strasbourg University Hospital has been working for 3 years, in collaboration with the Strasbourg start-up InSimo, on the development of an LP simulator. This simulator is original because it allows the feeling by pressure of the passage of the various structures, and in particular the yellow ligament. This sensation is made possible by a haptic force feedback device.

Conditions

• Lumbar Puncture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	performing lumbar punctures by students with standard training	performance of the puncture by the student have been previously trained with standard training
OTHER	training students augmented reality simulator	performance of the puncture by the student have been previously trained using the augmented reality simulator

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-02
• Primary completion: 2023-11-15
• Completion: 2023-11-15
• First posted: 2022-03-07
• Last updated: 2026-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France